how is your memory? with numbers.

[vash]

example.

when we gas up our work cars, we have to enter a 6 digit password. i have that memorized.

we then have to key in our odometer. i have coworkers that need to write that down when they exit the car. i found out they use a sharpie and write the pin# on their gas caps or somewhere on the vehicle.

if i take the time and effort to visualize the number written down..it is on lockdown. done. last time i filled up my odo was 89911..VERY easy to remember chit,,i still remember it.

you blurb out a phone number and it may as well be written in smoke. gone.

i still remember the firing order of a small block chevy. i cant remember the beloved flat-6. i dont know why.

[KFC911]

Excellent if I want it to be....can't remember names and faces....at all !

Wanna know the serial # off my Schwinn banana seat bike from '67 ?

[IROC]

I remember every phone number we've ever had. Even our address when I was 6 years old - 12 NW 72nd Street, Apt D, Gladstone, MO. Phone number 436-7775.

I worked at Service Merchandise in high school (1982). They used a 6-digit number (called an EDP number, for added trivia) for "self service" items. I still remember a lot of those. Glad trash bags? 901397.

[Zeke]

At one time I didn't even need a personal phone book (contacts these days). However, that diminishes as you reach old age. However, if I call a number within a month or so, I can recall the number.

Certain functions like copying a number off the screen is tougher. I don't know why. Say it out loud to me and I can hit the number every time up to a reasonably amount of digits — maybe 10, the amount in a phone number. CC numbers are too long for me to recall unless I memorize them.

[id10t]

I remember phone numbers from 40 years ago and have to spend time thinking about WHOSE phone numbers they are.

The IP address my workstation had until early 2000 was 207.203.200.200 ... The IP of the Quake server a buddy of mine set up for me at MIT was 18.89.0.72 - it went offline in '98 ...

[onewhippedpuppy]

I have a hard time remembering information that isn't really connected to anything else, if that makes sense. Names I suck with, and random bits of information are quickly forgotten. But something in context, like a grouping of data related to a specific topic, I retain. It's weird.

[sammyg2]

Originally Posted by vash

example.

when we gas up our work cars, we have to enter a 6 digit password. i have that memorized.

we then have to key in our odometer. i have coworkers that need to write that down when they exit the car. i found out they use a sharpie and write the pin# on their gas caps or somewhere on the vehicle.

if i take the time and effort to visualize the number written down..it is on lockdown. done. last time i filled up my odo was 89911..VERY easy to remember chit,,i still remember it.

you blurb out a phone number and it may as well be written in smoke. gone.

i still remember the firing order of a small block chevy. i cant remember the beloved flat-6. i dont know why.

18436572
couldn't get that number out of my haid if I tried.


Our phone number in SLC back in the mid 60's was 298-8983.
But I struggle to remember my phone numbers nowadays.

[Evans, Marv]

I remember almost all my numbers like S.S., bank accounts, driver's license, PINs, etc. Sometimes the cashier person at the credit union does a double take when I rattle off one of my account numbers when I want to do some transaction. But I'm noticing I'm not nearly so good at remembering numbers now as I used to.

[vash]

Originally Posted by sammyg2

18436572
couldn't get that number out of my haid if I tried.


Our phone number in SLC back in the mid 60's was 298-8983.
But I struggle to remember my phone numbers nowadays.

damn..i'll change my google password now.

[drkshdw]

If it's a number with a purpose, I remember it. DL's, addresses, phone numbers, PIN numbers, even a CC# I had when I was 18. However, within the last 5 years or so I will still remember the number but transpose 2 numbers almost always. Dunno why. My childhood phone number was 438-8831 however I now remember it (visualizing the number written down) as 483-8831. Even though I KNOW it's 438, not 483. If that makes any sense whatsoever.

[Por_sha911]

Einstein said:
"never memorize something that you can look up"
I must be a genius because my memory has never been good.

[biosurfer1]

I have a terrible, TERRIBLE, memory for practically everything but numbers. I'm sure my wife thinks I do it on purpose but its just a bad memory.

But need a PIN number from that ATM card you haven't used in 14 years and I'm your guy. Can't figure out what the disconnect is in the brain, but it would be nice to even out a bit.

[pwd72s]

Originally Posted by Por_sha911

Einstein said:
"never memorize something that you can look up"
I must be a genius because my memory has never been good.

Makes sense to me...yet for some reason I remember asking the operator to call "641". Yep, it was a small town back then.

[RKDinOKC]

The answer is 42

[red-beard]

I still have my original driver's license memorized... all nineteen digits...

[mepstein]

when my son was in middle school, they gave the class 8 minutes to memorize pie. He got to 37 digits but his friend, Jenna beat him when she wrote out 42 digits.

I told him to memorize the periodic table of elements because it would make it easier in chem class. It took him a day and he still remembers it after college.

He must have got it from my wife, I can't remember crap.

[cabmandone]

Not good... not good at all. I got locked out of my Speedy Rewards card because I couldn't remember the stupid 4 number code... all I wanted was a cup of coffee but noooooooo. Stupid, stupid code.

[wdfifteen]

I can’t remember anything. What was the question?

[Bill Douglas]

I never remember a name but I always forget a face.

My memory has actually got better. It depends on how good my sleep has been. Recently my sleep has been very good and I've been remembering all sorts of things. I'm good at password numbers and personal identification numbers.

[masraum]

I'm good with numbers. Maybe not as good as some of the guys here, but I regularly surprise coworkers. I have all sorts of things memorized, yeah, SBC firing order is one of them. It's not that long or hard, but when I was in College in the early 90s the number for Gumby's Pizza that delivered to the dorms was 977-2000.

I usually have a couple of credit card numbers memorized, a bunch of passwords (not all numbers), phone numbers, etc....